Local Media Assets not picking up posters for movies with two versions

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Server Version#: 1.18.7.2454-77cb9455c
Player Version#: 1.6.3.1009-57cf57c8
-movie (2003)
–movie (2003) [Ext].mkv
–movie (2003) [Ext]-poster.jpg
–movie (2003).mkv
–movie (2003)-poster.jpg

The poster isn’t being scraped into Plex for me, but will if I add a “poster.jpg” into the folder.

The above structure is normal behavior for tinyMediaManager when two movies are the same in the same folder. There is NOT a way to get it to also make a poster.jpg in the above situation.

I tried moving the movies apart (two different folder) and that does work. Is that my only solution other than manually making poster.jpg for each folder with more than one movie version in it?

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I’m not sure I get your point…
With that file/folder structure, Plex will recognize the videos as different versions of the same movie (“movie (2003)”). If you use folders for each movie, Plex will usually only look for files named ([cover|default|folder|movie|poster].ext). The structure you had used is used if your files are all in the same /Movies folder.

Even though… Plex would not show different posters for those different versions of the same movie.

If you want the movie versions to show as individual instances/items, you’ll need to move them into different folders and subsequently split the record in Plex.
Example:

Movies
  Movie (2003) - Theatrical
    Movie (2003) - Theatrical.mkv
    poster.jpg
  Movie (2003) - Extended
    Movie (2003) - Extended.mkv
    poster.jpg

Then, after scanning the library… select the record and go via ... > Split.
I suppose what you had in mind works only in an example like this:

Movies
  Movie (2003) - Theatrical.mkv
  Movie (2003) - Theatrical.jpg  <- no "-poster" suffix!!
  Movie (2003) - Extended.mkv
  Movie (2003) - Extended.jpg

I believe in such a setup you would not be able to subsequently split the item inside Plex.

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My point was to have the poster image show up for a movie when I didn’t have a “poster.jpg” in a folder but just:
movie (2003) [Ext]-poster.jpg
movie (2003)-poster.jpg
in the same folder since tinyMediaManager does not make a “poster.jpg” in these cases.

As is I’m able to split them if I want to, but I don’t want them separate. Hence the same folder.
From what you’re telling me the Local Media Assets won’t work for me and there is not a way other than adding “poster.jpg” in the case of two version of the same movie in the same folder?
Sucks, alright. I’ll have to figure out how to batch copy the poster file and rename the copy file.

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Since you’re doing so much manual intervention anyway:

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Once you get things split apart, if necessary, you can upload a poster image directly to the bundle - but that does put the image in the database.

If the database is held outside the Plex install folder and the OS, on a local drive with ample space - this may be an option for you.

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Thank you but I don’t want the movies split apart.
I’m working on adding a “poster.jpg” right now to the needed folders (~690 right now to go).

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